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Back home in Japan, Pianist Toshiko, 27, used to listen to all of them on records -Oscar Peterson, Erroll Garner, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie. She would take down the melodies and try to decide why they improvised as they did. Her father was an industrialist in Manchuria, and she studied classical piano there until the family was forced to return to Japan by the Chinese civil war. Toshiko prepared for medical school, but when she got a job playing with a dance band at the U.S. Army officers' club, she decided she wanted to be a pianist instead...
Gluhareff, 41, Russian-born son of Michael Gluhareff, engineering manager of Sikorsky's major helicopter program, plans to manufacture his device in partnership with Los Angeles Industrialist Robert McCulloch, hopes to get bids from the armed services and firms such as oil companies, which often need to plunk down a man in rugged terrain. Wistfully, Gluhareff rules out one potential customer: the earthbound commuter. Says he: "The CAA would never approve...
...Meaning "towers," for the towering factories and office buildings he has built as an industrialist...
...Defense (under Wilson), interim Senator, later White House staffer and now Secretary of the Interior; 2) Navy-minded Wilfred J. McNeil (a rear admiral in the Reserve), comptroller of the Defense Department in both the Truman and Eisenhower Administrations, who says modestly that he thinks that a big industrialist' should get the job; 3) air-and missile-minded Donald A. Quarles, onetime Bell Laboratories executive, later Secretary of the Air Force, now Deputy Secretary of Defense, a scientist and methodical thinker who was considered a shoo-in until vague but potent word got around that the President had misgivings...
Pressure v. Pressure. How did the Farben successors soar so high so fast? Answered a West German industrialist: "In physics we have the law that pressure brings forth counterpressure. The Allies exerted great pressure on Germany. In return, we exerted great counterpressure. And to get our minds off the dark future, we also worked like hell...